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Storytelling in urban Realm


Augmented Storytelling: How to Create Interesting AR Tours in the Urban Realm

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augmented reality
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mobile tours
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Storytelling in urban Realm
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layar
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smartphone
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ARtours
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The newest AR technology on your smartphone (for example: Layar) makes it possible to take your museum collection out of the digital database and reposition it on all possible locations in the urban realm. The dialogue between the virtual artifact and the real place poses new demands on our storytelling: what kind of experiences do the small screens of the deployed mobile phones offer us?

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Workshop - full or half day

Augmented Reality and the Museum Experience

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augmented reality
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user experience
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mobile technology
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Storytelling in urban Realm
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Future of Curating
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contemporary art
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In 2009 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam started the project ARtours. This project investigates and produces augmented reality tours around the collection of the Stedelijk and modern art in general. The project aims at both indoor and outdoor applications:

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Paper - in formal session